Chinese Pair Plotted 'Hong Kong' in U.S.-Allied Pacific Island Nation

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Two Chinese nationals hatched an audacious scheme to establish a Chinese special autonomous region like Hong Kong with its own legal system, immigration controls and taxation, in the Marshall Islands. First proposed in 2017, the plan would mean a "mini-state" within the borders of this U.S. ally in the Pacific. Our guests: Lai I-chung - President, Prospect Foundation Tsai Jung-hsiang - Professor of political science, National Chung Cheng University From Washington, D.C. Cleo Paskal - Senior non-resident fellow of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies